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Kyowa Kirin Recalling Mitomycin over Unauthorized Manufacturing Method, Supply Won’t Resume until 2021
Kyowa Kirin has launched a voluntary recall of its cancer drug mitomycin after it was found to have been manufactured by an unauthorized method, which cannot ensure sterile APIs, with its supply unlikely to restart before 2021. As no generic…
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